Web 1.0 was it. I miss those animated gifs bad.

Man, remember when you'd stumble across someone's personal page and it was just a million animated gifs, midis in the background (which like 10 minutes to load!), and dead links?

Haha, I miss those days. Those were also right before the days of Napster and such, and you had to go to those pages if you wanted to download music, and the songs were usually in Real Player format.

AOL hometown has gone too.

no-one seems to make their own sites now, I remember when bands had a geocities site rather than a myspace (or facebook now).

also those animations that'd follow the cursor. amazing!

Laziness, that's why.

I could go on about this for hour's (and I did on the phone yesterday), but people want to get famous with as little effort as possible. Even starting your own crappy webpage had somewhat of a DIY asthetic to it. Now with myspace and such, people just let other people do the hard work and still hope to get famous. You know those stupid messages that go around, saying to get a band name by clicking "random article" at wikipedia? Bands actually do that, because they are too lazy to come up with a name for their band, something that should be specific to them to describe their music and how they feel about it! But they are too freakin' lazy!!




But I digress. Hey, anybody remember the old ICQ?

yeah, I remember my number - 80128590!



also, I have a geocities page :)

www.geocities.com/scissor_shock

OH GOD REAL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!11 i totally forget real audio!! .ra, .ram, and .rm files on my computer. So ridiculous.

I used to have a folder full of .ram files, and I made all of the songs with bad language hidden so my mom wouldn't find them :) haha

I used to enjoy happy flowers aol site:

http://web.archive.org/web/200204090...mtbrand=AOL_US

There was a time when everybody liked hampsterdance, not just old people...

GEOCITIES CLOSING?!

How will you fags hampsterdance or Atsonicpark ever be able to look at thumbs going up bums ever AGAIN!?

RIP

A timely reminder that the internet has no obligation make an archive of un-interesting self-indulgent shite. Also, a timely reminder that nostalgia's memory is always blind to how shit something actually was.

"Nobody makes their own sites now" seems an odd statement when more people make their own sites now than ever before.

I saved the most important pages of the King Crimson Live! website - 1969-1974. But of course thats going to be out of date after a while.
I sent an email a while back to the operator asking what would be happening to the database, never got a reply :S

www.reocities.com
www.archive.org

Angelfire is still 'round, I believe.

I was also on geocities very early on. I ahd two websites for my art.

speaking of ancient shit, remember when I put andy warhol's face on layla?